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The Tuesday Tip, Graduate School

Graduate Level Study Habits

For many students who want to go to grad school, they often don’t realize that there is a big different between college and graduate school.  As a result, how you study needs to change as well.

When in college, many course were still about rote learning.  In graduate school, most of the classes are about understanding and creating.  So how you study needs to change.  Colleges teach students to master a subject, graduate school teaches students to master, understand and create, which are very different.  In graduated school, you will focus more on papers and defending your logic.  Thus, how you create you study notes will be different where as in college, you often wrote papers that were not of that sort on a regular basis and the papers were shorter.  Papers in college tend to be 5 pages, 25 pages in grad school.

So before you plan to go to graduate school, realize that it is different from college and you will need to step up your game in order to excel in grad school.